Show your vintage European basses!

#22
German made Hoyer

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JIO said:
Very cool - looks like a Ric bridge but better designed. It has what looks to be a Gibson-like rotary veri-tone at the controls but do you know what the top toggle does?
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No! Its labeled " balance" and i think is some kind of balance setting when the rotary is set in a position where two picups are selected. The rotary is a pickup selector and not a tone control like the gibson version. the tonal options on this one is endless...
 
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slantedpanted said:
No! Its labeled " balance" and i think is some kind of balance setting when the rotary is set in a position where two picups are selected. The rotary is a pickup selector and not a tone control like the gibson version. the tonal options on this one is endless...
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Oh - ok.., so 6 clicks that relate to 3 pu variations and the upper control a balance between whichever variation is chosen? (plus master volume & tone knobs I presume) Would be fun to play with all the tonal options! Is is from the 80's?
 
#28
I think there is a 'collectable vintage' designation for collectable things, but (as said many times before) 'vintage' just means what year it was from/made. Something can be 'vintage 2016' for all that matters - like wines. 'Vintage' is the descriptive term you use to designate the era/year something was produced/conceived. I have basses from many vintages; 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's etc. Worth is another issue - which is based on what someone will pay for something. Anyone can list, say, a 'vintage' 80's bass for mega-bucks, but until someone steps up to the plate and buys it for that inflated asking price - it's all smoke and mirrors.
 
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#33
hushnel said:
My first bass, Framus Atlantik. I got back in 1965, dad was stationed at Wiesbaden AFB, Germany.

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Nice! The cool thing about these non-US made basses is there seems to be an endless variety of styles and approaches w/some consistent visuals like tort, f-holes and sunburst. Keep um' come'n!
 
#34
Here's a quirky one. From the Eastern German bloc of the 60s, we have a Musima V/2 bass (I guess they like their basses as they like their rockets).
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And here is a Migma of some sort (Migma was a sister comany to Musima). I guess all of Europe was infatuated in covering guitars with accordion paper.
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While they seem to be relatively hard to find over here in the US, scrolling through Polish classifieds seems like they can be had for a few hundred bucks.
 
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